Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

If you go to an aquarium at the zoo, you will see fish, turtles, and sharks. What is an aquarium?

• birdcage
• building used to show various sea animals
• doghouse
• horse barn

We watched the dolphins swim in the ocean.  What are dolphins?

• marine mammals
• flying insects
• fresh-water fish
• desert reptiles

People have long been enchanted by dolphins.  What does enchanted mean?

• polluted
• imaginary
• peaceful
• delighted; charmed

The Pink Dolphin can touch its tail to its nose, because it is so flexible.  What does flexible mean?

• easily bent; not stiff; bending without breaking
• straight
• hurt
• hungry

We caught only a few glimpses of the sunset.  What are glimpses?

• photographs
• short stories
• dances
• brief (quick) views

My cat purrs with rumbling pulses.  What are pulses?

• deep breaths
• snoring
• rhythmic (regular) beats
• excited meows

Dolphins must go to the surface of the water to breathe.  What is the surface?

• the top of the ground, soil, or body of water
• far side
• highest peak
• middle

Those fish are aquatic creatures.  What does aquatic mean?

• of the water
• of the south
• of the tropics
• of the past

It was hard to predict the ending of the book.  What does predict mean?

• to look before
• to state (say) before
• to lead before
• to feel before

His diction made me think he was from another country.  What is diction?

• style of speaking (talking)
• the way someone looks
• style of dress
• family name